Each year we select the All-County Football Team, and while there are always plenty of seniors on the team, I cannot remember a year like last season.

Of the 28 players who earned First Team All-County honors in 2014, 24 were graduating seniors. That means only four players from the First Team return in 2015 and that is easily the smallest number of returnees in my the nearly 20 years I have covered Columbia County.

On Saturday, Harlem High School will have its first Bulldog Night at 6 p.m. in the commons area. Coaches, players and cheerleaders will be introduced and former foootball coach Jimmie Lewis will be honored. Sconyers Bar-B-Que will cater the event and tickets are $10 if you plan to eat. Call Call Billy Sheppard at (706) 533-0520.

In cooperation with Orthopaedic Associates of Augusta PEAK Rehab, Stallings Island Middle School will be performing physicals for all athletes across Columbia County on Thursday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Cost is $25 payable to Stallings Island Middle School.

Having hosted a number of high-profile events over the past few years, Columbia County isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

Blanchard Woods Park was the site of the 2012 and 2013 NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships. Wildwood Park was the staging ground for the 2015 USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Bike National Championships and Wildwood Games, and it will again in 2016.

First approved in July 2012, the new Lakeside High School Athletic Complex is still moving toward completion.

Phase 1, essentially preparing the site for construction to include installation of water, sewer and stormwater systems, building the main road and rough grading of the entire site, was completed within the past month.

After rolling through the 2015 Georgia Little League Senior League Baseball State tournament, Martinez-Evans Little League hit a roadblock in the championship round on Wednesday.

The MELL All-Stars dropped the first game to West Point, 5-2, but rebounded to beat West Point, 6-2, in Game 2, taking the state title and advancing to the Southeastern Region Tournament in the process.